Feature comparison of performance analysis tools

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Feature Firebug AOL Page Test Fiddler HttpWatch MySpace VRTA YSlow Google Page Speed
Performance grade + +
Content download diagram.png
Content download diagram
+ + 2.x beta + + +
Connection diagram.png
Connection diagram
+
Content breakdown diagram.png
Content breakdown diagram
+
Zooming in and out.png
Zooming in and out
+/-
(single request)
+
Rendering progress screen shots.png
Rendering progress screen shots
+/-
(at render start, onLoad and complete)
+
Connection diagram by content type.png
Connection diagram by content type
+
Showing connection siblings on waterfall diagrams
Display JavaScript function executions on a timeline
Running both empty-cache and primed-cache cases +
Showing cache hits +
Showing render start event +
Showing document onload event +
Showing custom events +/-
(single event)
Color-coding parts of the request/response
Showing time-chart of each request
Showing request/response headers +
Ability to select only subset of requests
Ability to analyze SSL traffic +
Ability to decode compressed traffic +
Display content-type icon
Display hostname field separately
Displaying metric summary for a page +
Color-coding queued/blocked state of the request
Ability to delete unwanted requests from analysis +
Color-coding by error code +/-
(3xx/error)
Request content preview
Ability to export result +
Ability to run automatically
Ability to automatically send results to remote server
Ability to script sequence of pages to navigate +/-
(results only recorded for last page in sequence)
CPU load monitoring